This guy did the right thing.Any cougar not running away (or actively growling,hissing and spitting at you)is preparing to attack.For those of you unsure about the identiy of the cat in the picture,it is a cougar,it is a huge one,but it isn't nearly as big as it looks because cougars bulk out a lot with a huge oversized hide (the big belly hanging down under a cougar is mostly skin)

Just to put it into perspective cougar meat is quite tasty.It tastes much like chicken,although very dry.

This guy did the right thing.Any cougar not running away (or actively growling,hissing and spitting at you)is preparing to attack.For those of you unsure about the identiy of the cat in the picture,it is a cougar,it is a huge one,but it isn't nearly as big as it looks because cougars bulk out a lot with a huge oversized hide (the big belly hanging down under a cougar is mostly skin)

Just to put it into perspective cougar meat is quite tasty.It tastes much like chicken,although very dry.

I perfer the taste of human myself. Would rather hunt them for sport, since man the most dangerous game...

BTW, I just dropped $74 on 100 pounds of wild bird seed and 300 pounds of shelled corn to suppliment the winter browse for deer. I'll probably do this at least three more times, and more than likely twice that guess, before April.
I spend plenty on food plantings, not just for seed but lime and fertilizer.
I've bought and released 50 northern bobwhite quail to reestablish them but with bobcats, coyotes, black snakes, hawks, skunks, possums and racoons, they didn't have a well diggers chance in hell of making it.
So what has PETA done lately?

Nice points. I own a large piece of forested woodland that will be perpetual habitat for all sorts of wildlife. (yes my home will soon be there too but only one acre in the middle of it) It truly cracks me up to hear these "animal rights" extremists pontificate about "habitat" and make anti hunting comments when many of them are now living in suburbs that used to be the very habitat these critters used. I'm doing more for the continuance of these cats and other animals than any of these hypocrites

It was.Any cougar that isn't either running away or snarling/growling at you is preparing to attack.Period,no ifs,ands or buts.Any and all cougars staring at you or walking towards you are stalking you for dinner.If the cougar felt you were invading its territory it would be snarling,growling and yowling at you.

I agree. They're predators. They feast on meat. Any meat. If they are hungry enough, you'll do if you happen to be there. A Mother and her two children were horseback riding when a lion jumped one of them. While the Mother was trying to beat the lion off the child it turned on her and tore her apart. By the time help arrived, she was dead. They are dangerous, and they stalk humans.

There are very few subjects that are divisive on SF as hunting. I do not object to members expressing their opinions on it, be they pro or con, as long as they are intelligent comments. In my world, (warped as it may be) WN ideology should support hunters and hunting rights.

That said, I do not like trophy hunting, or hunting of apex species. But that is a personal opinion. I have not and will not hunt cougar, or bear. My boss's brother spends big bucks every year to go out West to hunt cat. He hauls his mules with him. I find the whole deal rather pointless, a bit disgusting and a big waste of $, but evidently, he gets enjoyment out of it, somehow. Does it make him a bad guy? No.

When these hunting of these cats is outlawed, the cats lose their fear of humans and start viewing them as food. It is my understanding that in California the animals rights folks outlawed cougar hunting and now cougars are hunting joggers and hikers.

There are cougars in the woods where I live; They have not attacked a human because they are afraid to mess with people.

Location: In the shadows, striking out only to disappear like a nightmare.

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Re: Missouri deer hunter becomes the hunted

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Originally Posted by X311inAZ

I've had run-ins with a number of those big kitties here in AZ and was even stalked from a distance once. I do know that they do such stalking of humans frequently and usually without it resulting in a actual attack, but when the attack does occur, its very sudden and violent, with little or no warning. The deer hunter acted appropriately in this trained zoologists estimation.

K

I live in Kansas and a couple of months ago a town to the south of me had a puma attack. So pumas are not so rare in the midwest and plains states, they are superb hunters that are difficult to find.

Even in California growing up we had pumas running around Sacramento down by the American river.

Heh, right. I'm not even pro-hunting; in fact, I think it's psychopathic to kill for fun (though of course, for the animal, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever).

But when it comes to dangerous animals, I'm pretty intolerant, yeah. I wonder how 'beautiful' (literally no one before the 18th-19th century looked at nature this way)

good one. hear that at church? those fire & brimstone preachers have way of pretending the pre-christian Germans and Celts never existed

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Originally Posted by Boomstronk

[...]you think a cougar is when it is mauling your face. And yes, I realize cougar attacks are pretty rare, but it is very much possible, and I don't see how you could blame this hunter when the cougar was acting as suspiciously as it was. Maybe he should have waited until it pounced on top of him before firing, right?

I too live in cougar country. But that means very little unless one spends as much time in the outdoors, specifically the Olympics and the Cascades, as I have.

(1) cougars don't hunt that way. they are hard-wired by evolution to avoid injury at almost any cost. They almost never go after prey that is comparable in size. It is almost unheard of for a cougar to attack an animal that is already aware of its presence. It is almost unheard of for a cougar to attack or fight an animal that has chosen to stand and fight rather than flee. If you so much as yell or throw a rock toward them it freaks them the hell out and they cut town like a bat out of hell

(2) this clown was in a freakin' deer stand. there is no way in hell a cougar would attack a 6 foot tall, 220lb human in a deer stand. being the kind of dildo that gets off on killing animals, and likely bored of failing to bag or even see any deer, he shot that cat the second he saw it. I'd bet a 12-pack on that.

I'm not saying that animals should never be shot. I carry a pistol while backpacking partly because I am wary of (far more common, and yet still extremely uncommon) bear attacks (along with mestizo/SE Asian "meth farmer" attacks). But I wouldn't shoot a bear just because it was in my camp and then claim it to have stalked or charged me.

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Originally Posted by Boomstronk

Oh, and read through my 1450 posts and then tell me I 'conform to our image'.

yeah, sounds fun. the hyper-simplistic xxxxxxxspeak of "aggressive animals should be shot." and your reference to the comment by Karl! as "pussiness" was enough xxxxxxxxxery for me.